Pharma giant to create 200 highly skilled jobs

Pharmaceutical giant Lilly is to create 200 highly skilled jobs by investing €330m in the construction of a new hi-tech manufacturing plant on its Co Cork campus.

The IDA-supported investment, announced by Enterprise Minister Richard Bruton yesterday, will create 300 construction jobs during the three-year building project at the company’s 150-acre base at Dunderrow, near Kinsale.

Recruitment will start within weeks and the building should be ready to begin manufacturing by 2016.